Rope shovel undecking

Megalifter

MEGALIFTER® is the mining industry’s first and only patented heavy lift system designed specifically for maintenance on swing gears, bearings, roller paths, or center pintles by undecking and redecking mine rope shovels, or simply for carbody replacements.

MEGALIFTER® offers sheer power, optimized design and straight forward operation. With twin-jacks at each lifting point, MEGALIFTER® has built in redundancy and provides ultimate reliability for even the most extreme conditions. With twice the capacity needed to support the world’s heaviest shovels, MEGALIFTER is designed to withstand seismic loads up to 7.0 and wind loads up to 130 km/h.

Since 1997, MEGALIFTER® has been used by the world’s most safety-oriented mining operations to perform critical maintenance on rope shovels of all types and sizes. With a design capacity of over 3,000,000 lbs, the MEGALIFTER® can safely lift the world’s largest mine shovels complete with boom, handle and dipper, if desired.

The Challenge

The main challenge for the operation and maintenance planners is to have an optimal maintenance schedule in order to maximize availability and productivity of the shovel fleet.

In addition to the challenge of making sure the equipment is available, the workers need to safely perform work under tremendously heavy components, such as a shovel upper structure.

Rope shovels represent the most critical production equipment for the mine owners.

The challenge is to maximize availability of the rope shovel fleet

The Solution

SAFER, FASTER AND EASIER MAINTENANCE IS NOW POSSIBLE

Best overall safety:

More stability during operations – all loads are supported, and none are suspended.
Safest lifting system on the market with a perfect track record and no incidents.
Embedded safety with a patented dual-jack system that provides 100% redundancy at each lifting point.

Higher Productivity:

MEGATRACTION technology improves the MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) by reducing 30% to 60% of shovel downtime vs. other methods.
Reducing the MTTR means the equipment is available faster, resulting in potentially higher productivity or increased revenues.

LIFTING PROCESS STANDARDIZATION:

MEGATRACTION lifting methodology provides an efficient and repeatable way of lifting equipment whether for integral or split lifts on all excavators or shovels.
Our step by step lifting process ensures repeatability over time resulting in gains of efficiency.

BENEFITS & FEATURES

Minimal setup and preparation time
Minimal labour and resource requirements
Avoidance of safety concerns
Lifting flexibility according to maintenance needs
Increase of the shovel fleet availability ratio for the mine
Overall cost reduction for maintenance operations

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KEY TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Megalifter saves an enormous amount of time, resources and workforce hours.

Weld-less front lifting jigs Boom-on lifts 2-stage lifts

Weld-less front lifting jigs

MEGATRACTION has designed weld-less lifting jigs for all shovels on the market today, including electric rope or large hydraulic units.

Available for Boom-On or Boom -Off lifts.
Available for all shovels models on the market.
Installed in as little as 1-3 hours using regular equipment in the mine.
Save up to 3 days of welding time per shovel compared to traditional weld on jigs.

Boom-on lifts

The MEGALIFTER is designed to lift shovels complete with all front attachments in place.

No need to remove the boom, handle and dipper.
Save 4-8 hours by not having to remove handle and dipper.
Save up to 2-3 days by not having to remove boom, depending on boom foot pins.
Save an equal amount of time by not having to re-install these components.

2-stage lifts

The MEGALIFTER is also compatible with an auxiliary jacking system that enables lifting of the carbody, using the same hydraulic power unit/control.

Turn-key lifting services/solution.
Enable safe and efficient work on the undercarriage components in parallel to work done on the upper structure.
Synchronize undercarriage maintenance with major undecking in order to avoid an additional outages.

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Unique lifting solutions

We created the world’s safest, fastest, and easiest lifting system intended for the maintenance of mining excavators, electric and hydraulic shovels, and bulldozers.

After more than 24 years of design evolution and a perfect track record for safety, we offer the best insurance for successful lifting operations and the protection your most important production assets. We’re helping mines to turn optimization efforts into real accomplishments. We lift your trucks and shovels lifts of any size, make or type with truck and boom on, faster and easier than any other maintenance equipment.

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